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“A recent New York Magazine article painted Everything Is Illuminated writer Jonathan Safran Foer as a "vegetarian polemicist" harboring an ethical grudge against Anthony Bourdain. The story behind that hilarious feud can be found in a chapter entitled "A Case For Eating Dogs" from his latest tome, Eating Animals. The book is Foer's first non-fiction effort; one that's being billed as a broader argument about the ethics of animal rights. Expect that passionate after-dinner dispute tonight from, undisputedly, one of America's greatest literary talents.”
Julian Hooper, Flavorpill
Jonathan Safran Foer presents and signs Eating Animals This event will be held at the Skirball Cultural Center 2701 N Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles CA 90049. Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between eating meat and being a vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got on our dinner plates? Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits—from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth—and how such tales justify a brutal ignorance. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told... and the stories we now need to tell.
